Word: thwarts
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...blame? The responsibility for Hamas’s electoral victory lies across the board. Fatah’s decades of corruption and incompetence, and Israel’s fixation on improvising unilateral plans of action to resolve a persisting crisis, has diverted precious resources that could have helped thwart the fledgling Islamists. Nevertheless, this is not the time to blame different sides for the imprudence of their policies or the shortcomings of their performance. There is a new reality on the ground in Palestine, but it is neither unprecedented nor reason to panic.This abrupt political upset in the Middle-East...
...urgency, however, as fears of another biological threat--avian flu--have mounted. China and Indonesia recently reported human fatalities from the disease, bringing the total number of deaths as of late December to 73, and the U.S. is now scrambling to stockpile medicines--such as the antiviral Tamiflu--to thwart a possible pandemic. Bush has asked Congress, as part of his $7.1 billion response plan, for a "crash program" to speed the development of new vaccine technologies, and Congress last month passed a defense bill that included $3.8 billion, mainly for flu vaccines and medicines...
...traditions. In the past decade, they have imposed veritable import quotas and have slowly squeezed the numbers even smaller so that each beya is now allowed only one foreign fighter (a grandfather clause permits a few exceptions). That cap on foreigners may cripple the sport's resurgence and thwart its chances of becoming a genuinely world-class sport, one with Olympic aspirations...
...Norquist also suggested the natural disasters, as well as either the voters of Iraq (or, alternately, the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who hopes to thwart them). TIME's own Matthew Cooper, who has been at the center of the criminal investigation into alleged White House leaks of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, suggested that Bill Gates may be worthy of Person of the Year award for his work as a philanthropist. And, ever the White House correspondent, he also suggested that President Bush could be considered for a second year in a row- although this time...
...actual work. Just ask Betty Moss. She was one of thousands of workers at Polaroid Corp.--the Waltham, Mass., maker of instant cameras and film--who, beginning in 1988, gave up 8% of their salary to underwrite an employee stock-ownership plan, or ESOP. It was created to thwart a corporate takeover and "to provide a retirement benefit" to Polaroid employees to supplement their pension, the company pledged. Alas, it was not to be. Polaroid was slow to react to the digital revolution and began to lose money in the 1990s. From 1995 to 1998, the company racked...